How’d a young quarterback like Prescott end up in the rapper’s popular solo?

Malone visited Cowboys headquarters last June. Prescott was entering his third season as starting quarterback after supplanting Tony Romo in 2016. Prescott earned the starting job when Romo fractured his back (and his backup Kellen Moore broke his ankle) then played so well Romo never retrieved his role. Romo retired that offseason to become CBS’ lead NFL color analyst.

Malone still included Romo in the lyrics of his February 2018 song “Psycho.” The song’s chorus says, “My roof look like a no-show, got diamonds by the boatload. Come with the Tony Romo for clowns and all the bozos.”

Prescott jokingly ribbed Malone during his visit about Romo’s shoutout. Malone apparently remembered. When he released his single “Wow” on December 24, he slid Prescott into the lyrics.

“I’ve never arrived,” Prescott said of the nod, “but that’s something big.”

Six days later, Prescott and the Cowboys trailed the Giants 35-28 with 1:12 to go. They faced fourth-and-15 from the Giants’ 32-yard line. Olivier Vernon rushed toward Prescott. The quarterback spun out of his Vernon’s grasp, sprinted down the left sideline and found Cole Beasley in the end zone on a cross-body dart. Beasley laid out to dive for the game-winner. Cowboys 36, Giants 35.

New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold, left, hands off to running back Le'Veon Bell while running a drill at the team's NFL football training facility in Florham Park, N.J., Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Julio Cortez, AP

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